{"id":45966,"date":"2025-08-11T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45966"},"modified":"2025-08-11T04:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:47:19","slug":"israeli-strike-kills-5-al-jazeera-journalists-including-anas-al-sharif-in-gaza-network-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=45966","title":{"rendered":"Israeli strike kills 5 Al Jazeera journalists, including Anas Al Sharif, in Gaza, network says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">LONDON &#8212; The Al Jazeera media company said in a Sunday statement that five of its journalists &#8212; including prominent correspondent Anas Al Sharif &#8212; were killed in an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/israel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Israeli<\/a>&nbsp;airstrike on a tent housing reporters in Gaza City.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Fellow correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa and their assistant Mohammed Noufal were also killed in the attack, Al Jazeera said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that it targeted Sharif, claiming the correspondent headed a Hamas cell and was involved in rocket attacks against Israeli targets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sharif was one of the best-known journalists reporting from Gaza, with millions of social media followers. He last posted to his X and Instagram accounts minutes before his death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Al Jazeera said in a statement that it &#8220;condemns in the strongest terms the targeted assassination&#8221; of its journalists. &#8220;The order to assassinate Anas Al Sharif, one of Gaza\u2019s bravest journalists, and his colleagues, is a desperate attempt to silence the voices exposing the impending seizure and occupation of Gaza,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Sunday&#8217;s strike came after the Committee to Protect Journalists published an appeal for Sharif&#8217;s protection, saying it was &#8220;gravely worried&#8221; about his safety and accusing the IDF of launching a &#8220;smear campaign,&#8221; against him, which Sharif &#8220;believes is a precursor to his assassination.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The CPJ said that 186 journalists have been killed since the start of the Israel-Gaza war on Oct. 7, 2023. At least 178 of those were Palestinians killed by Israeli forces, the group said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/International\/israeli-strike-kills-4-al-jazeera-journalists-including\/story?id=124534669\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; The Al Jazeera media company said in a Sunday statement that five of its journalists &#8212; including prominent correspondent Anas Al Sharif &#8212; were killed in an&nbsp;Israeli&nbsp;airstrike on a tent housing reporters in Gaza City. Fellow correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh, cameramen Ibrahim Zaher and Moamen Aliwa and their assistant Mohammed Noufal were also killed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":45967,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[10115,23174,34295],"class_list":["post-45966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-al","tag-israeli","tag-jazeera"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45968,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45966\/revisions\/45968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}